Not related to Halloween, but "In Cold Blood" is the movie I will never allow myself to see again. The fact that it was a true story made it deeply horrifying. I wanted that door to be locked sooooo bad, but I knew it wasn't and that they would all die. That movie haunted me for a long time.

Exorcist 111 scared the crap out of me. You only need to watch 1 and 111. Exorcist 11 was a piece of garbage but 1 and 111 are based on William Peter Blatty books. Havent seen Last House on the Left for some reason but it sounds like my kind of movie.

Of all the "real-life" scary stuff, nothing has been documented more thoroughly than demon possession. Ask any missionary who's spent time in a primative culture and they will tell you "I wasn't sure before if I believed in that stuff... but now I do".

Definitely "It's the Great Pumpkin..."
For halloween "shorts," I like Warner Bros Bugs w/ the old witch, Bugs w/ Dracula, (OK, I like all the cartoons WB did).
"Hocuscadabra!"
"Alacapocus!"...Too funny!

Since today is "National Increase Your Pyschic Powers Day," I'm going to practice mine now...
"I'm seeing that some of you will be walking around outdoors tonight and not quite yourselves. Some of you will be hiding in dark rooms. Some of you will be drunk. Some of you will be...oops! Sorry, can't post that one but WOW! What an image."

Yeah, 13 Ghosts and What Lies Beneath were really good. And you're right, Beatrice, the original Night of the Living Dead was great. I've watched it several times, and I still jump and scream. It's creepy from the very beginning, before anything even happens.

I'm somewhat empty on this. I can't say that there are any specifically halloween movies that I think are stellar performances. I seem to remember, however, that the Simpsons have some pretty excellent halloween specials.

any of the Halloween movies, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original or the recent one with Jessica Biel), American Werewolf in London, Hocus Pocus and last but not least It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown

I don't like really gory stuff, so with short films, my favorites are Charlie Brown and the old Disney animated version of Sleepy Hollow.

With full length movies, my favorite is Hocus Pocus. The Shining was good, too. Carrie is also one of my favorites. I've seen it countless times, but I still jump at the end when that hand comes up through the ground...

When I was a kid it was Halloween. It scared the crap out of me. Now that I'm older I don't find that one scary anymore. I haven't seen a truly scary movie in years. The horror/thriller movies from the past 10 years aren't scary, just disturbing. I have to say, though, disturbing or not, Hostel was one of the best horror movies I've seen in many many moons.

Hey - I happened across the Carnival of Souls PBS show. It was fun to see some of the folks of Lawrence back in the late 80s who were attending the event. I've never watched it either. The lady said she had to sit in the Kansas River in the car for hours at a time while they filmed the shots. BRRRR!!!

Never before have I been ashamed to admit that I live in Lawrence. Tonight while out trick or treating with my family we noticed a group of white male kids dressed up as klansmen knocking on peoples door saying "open up "n" we know your in there", and white power and people would open there door laugh and give the boys candy. Although a few people did tell them that it was unacceptable and to move on. Were have we gone wrong, what are we teaching our children. We as a society have come too far. But I guess ignorance is taught.